Is Anyone Considering the Cervical Cancer Vaccine?

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by nikki1920

That's my issue with it. Too many unknowns and just not enough reasearch. I'm glad someone pointed out the flu shot thing because every year there's an epidemic, the vaccine never matches it and I just don't see the point of getting a flu shot. I don't want my daughter to get Guardasil yet. That's it.

Kinda reminds me of the highly touted med for pregnant woment to treat morning sickness and it caused deformities in the babies.

Who knows if Gardisil really works. If you don't get cervical cancer is it because of it? There are millions of women who never had access to this drug and they don't have that cancer. Also, what will it do the the reproductive system? Has that been addressed?

It all seems like a scare tactic by the drug industry to me.

[Drolefille]

Honestly I think the vaccine is a good thing overall. The downside is that they don't yet know the long-term effects. But HPV doesn't just effect the reproductive system. My dad's throat cancer was caused by HPV, it's the most-common cause for non-drinkers and non-smokers. (Although radon's up there too.)

As for comparison's to the flu vaccine, HPV doesn't mutate as fast as the flu does. And every year they're only guessing at which strain of the flu will be the most common as compared to HPV where they've isolated the major strains that cause cancer.